Painted surface H: 25 1/4 x W: 19 13/16 in. (64.2 x 50.3 cm)

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For more information on this painting, please see Federico Zeri's 1976 catalogue no. 307, p. 435.

Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, prior to 1881 [mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 59; 1897 catalogue: no. 119]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.]]> SS. Agata e Margherita, Cremona, Italy]]> ]]>
"Fabricius Hildanus (1560-1634) a noteds surgeon who practiced in Bern, Switzerland, was the first to advocate removal of both breast and axillary glands in carinoma mammae. He denounced the red hot knives and..."

A similar print is on Pean in the NLM collection - likely from same source

Artist uses exact same woman from portrait of Charcot with hysterical female patient. the man in background is the same. Even the woman appears in similar positioning but is thrown in a different state of hysteria.]]> http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101416473]]>
1 postcard : 14 x 9 cm]]>
1 photograph : 26 x 21 cm]]> http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101673289]]>
1 photograph : 18 x 13 cm]]> http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101674146]]> Produced: [between 1930 and 1950?]]]> http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101426159]]> [S.l. : s.n., 19--?]]]>
Tools feature in a locked cabinet to his left, including those used for mastectomies.]]> http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101436382]]>
A woman seated clutching breast could stand for melancholy (mastectomy). Tools in the foreground reminiscent of shears.]]> http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101435926]]>
Nurse holds a tool that resembles a pair of tongs, unclear purpose

wodocut]]> Ryff, Walther Hermann, -1548., author]]> http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101435725]]> [Franckfurt am Meyn: Christian Egenolff, 1545]]]>